March 6, 20230CommentsQ&A with Atari CEO Wade Rosen on the company’s 50th anniversary, making use of its traditional IP, plans to focus on retro gaming hardware, licensing, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
March 6, 20230CommentsSources: around 20 leaders at Clubhouse have left over the past year, including hires from Meta, Google, and others; Clubhouse continues to add “top talent” (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)
March 6, 20230CommentsSources: China plans to create an agency to manage the country’s data stores, shifting from multiple ministries, seeking to streamline its regulatory structure (Keith Zhai/Wall Street Journal)
March 6, 20230CommentsAt the National People’s Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation for its tech hardware sector (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
March 6, 20230CommentsAbu Dhabi-based data analytics firm Presight AI, owned by AI and cloud computing company G42, plans to raise $495M at a ~$2B valuation in an IPO on March 13 (Shaji Mathew/Bloomberg)
March 6, 20230CommentsSources: SoftBank’s Arm hopes to raise $8B+ at a $50B+ valuation in its US IPO, which is expected later in 2023 after a confidential filing in late April (Reuters)
March 6, 20230CommentsA study of 13M+ Facebook posts in the run-up to the 2020 US elections found that 23% of the sampled posts with political images contained misinformation (Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press)
March 6, 20230CommentsInternal docs appear to show execs at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5%-5% in “APY rewards”, misrepresenting the risks of its lending practices to users (Jason Mikula/Fintech Business Weekly)
March 6, 20230CommentsSiri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don’t work” (Dave Lee/Financial Times)